In this episode we discuss and debate the first true cynic. A man who was truly the top dog of his trade. Or so we're told. There's a man, a myth and a legend. Today we discuss who was this man? Who was the man with the ragged cloak and a cutting wit? A man talked about over 2000 years later?

Sources

-Prof. K Von Fritz of Columbia University

-Dr. Eduard Schwartz

-D.R Dudley, A History of Cynicism, from Diogenes to the Sixth Century A.D (1937)

-Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

-Dr.Charles Theodore Seltman of Cambridge Philological Society

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